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Got an idea for a ring? Like something on our shop but want a different wood or style?

Contact us, you can mix and match the woods and inlays you see on our site to create the ring that you have imagined.

We can also create rings using your own materials or help you source materials special to you.

Please click through the tabs at the top of this text to learn all about custom ring options

Sounds expensive?

We understand that a lot of people charge a lot of money for custom work, but the truth is we love to work on custom designs. Below are the considerations for how we will price your ring.

Processing your own materials takes us a little extra time so comes with a small additional cost (depending on material).

Switching the wood in one of our designs for another stock wood won't cost you any more at all.

Switching the metal inlays for a different metal we offer won't cost you more unless you are switching to 18ct Gold.

Sourcing special materials for you, we will charge you the cost of the additional materials.

Using some of our heritage materials? Naturally these cost more than our stock woods we offer so there will be an additional charge.

In short we will charge for additional production time used and additional materials used, but we will not charge you more for the privilege of having a custom design made, we won't charge you for the time we have spent designing it with you and we will try wherever possible to keep our prices inline with the ones you see on our stock design rings in our store.

We stock a selection of woods that have either a historical or culturally significant story, below are some examples of woods we have in stock -

  • Tower of London Oak
  • WWII Spitfire Propeller - BR601
  • WWII Lee Enfield Rifle Stocks
  • WWII M1 Garand Rifle Stocks
  • 100 Acre Woods Oak (Winnie the Pooh)
  • Grave of Robin Hood Yew Wood (Kirklees Priory Monument)
  • HMS Victory Decking Wood
  • Ford Model T Wheel Spokes
  • Shawshank Redemption White Oak Tree
  • Stamford Bridge Stadium Seating Wood (Chelsea)
  • Anfield Stadium (Liverpool FC)
  • Wembley Stadium (English National Football Team)
  • Mcallan Whiskey Barrel Oak
  • Johnnie Walker Whiskey Barrel Oak
  • Oliver Musical Film Set Wood
  • Casino Royale (James Bond) Film Set Wood

Often we can source similar woods for customers, if you have an interest that you would like your ring to have a link to, let us know what it is... It may be HMS Victory wood because you enjoy maritime history, Casino Royale film set wood because you are a movie or James Bond fan or wood from a WWII rifle stock to link to your passion for history.

We can source woods from various American sports stadiums e.g. Chicago Stadium (Chicago Bulls), Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles).

We can source wood from a number of British and American battleships e.g USS Texas, HMS Hermes.

Musical theatres and arenas e.g Hollywood Bowl.

Wood from film sets e.g the Dark Knight, Dr Who Tardis.

Landmarks and historic buildings e.g The White House.

All examples listed are subject to availability at the time of your order, please let us know what interests you and we can see what we can find.

All rings made with woods that fall under our Heritage woods category will be supplied with certificates of authenticity confirming the source of the wood used.

We can incorporate your own materials into a ring of your design, most materials can be used in some way or another.

You might imagine it will be expensive to have us make a ring with your materials or a mixture of yours and ours, but the truth is we love custom work, so we keep the prices inline with the stock designs you find on our website. It takes us a little more time to prepare and process your materials for use, so it will cost you just a little bit more to cover this.

Examples of some materials and how we can use them are listed below.

Wood -

We regularly use pieces of wood supplied by customers for their rings. Most wood is suitable to be used in some way even if it can not be used to form the entire ring. We often use one of our stock woods as a liner and feature your wood on the outside of the ring. The wood is planed into shaved curls and built up in layers around the circumference of the ring to form the outside, or a featured section on the outside. If the wood is not suitable for this, then inlays of wood chips can be used instead.

Metal -

We do not melt metals at inGrained rings so we feature your metals in other ways. We have utilised gold and other metals from vintage rings supplied by customers to create new inlays or feature sections of rings. We use metal as fine swarf shavings, small chips, or even filed into a metal powder. All of these create interesting, textured and unique options for the outside of your ring.

Dried or false flowers -

We use a fair amount of dried flowers for our floral ring collection and we can use yours also. We have used flowers from client's weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, native homelands and special places to create rings.

Fabric -

Want to use a piece of fabric from a loved one's clothing? A section of an old military uniform? Your lucky wedding socks? Most types of fabric can be used as a feature within your ring.

Stone -

Collected some stones from your favourite place? The place you got engaged? Or your own garden? We can use your stones within a ring, on their own or mixed with coloured stones of your choice. Your stones will need to be chipped or crushed by us for use.

Sand -

Much like the stone above we have used sand from beaches special to our customers. Sand creates unique and often contrasting inlays for a bentwood ring.

A material we didn't mention?

Send us a message! Almost anything can be used.

We have a lage number of woods to choose from, each as unique as the next. Our woods come from all over the world and are either reclaimed from other projects or in the cases where we order new woods these are FSC certified.

Some of the most popular woods we offer are listed below -

  • English Brown Oak
  • English Elm
  • Birdseye Maple
  • Grey Birdseye Maple
  • Macassar Ebony
  • Grey Oak
  • European Oak
  • Bubinga
  • Santos Rosewood
  • Figured American Walnut
  • Zebrawood
  • Purple Heart
  • Burmese Teak
  • Quilted Maple
  • Grey Quilted Maple
  • Ancient Bog Oak

This is a small selection of the 60+ wood species we have in stock, we also have the woods from our 'Heritage Collection', information for which you can find on the 'Heritage Materials' tab above.

If you are looking for a wood from a specific country or a specific colour, tone or pattern of wood, just let use know and we will see what we have.

There are a vast number of inlay options available, if you dont see a specific stone, metal or material here that you have considered, it probably can be used so please contact us.

Some of the inlay materials we stock are listed below -

Stones

  • Turquoise
  • Malachite
  • Onyx (black)
  • Obsidian
  • Lapis Lazuli
  • Howlite (white)
  • Tigers Eye
  • Smokey Quartz
  • Red Jasper
  • Raw Ruby (pinkish)
  • Chrysocolla
  • Moonstone
  • Mother of Pearl
  • Pyrite (fools gold)
  • Amethyst
  • Emerald (light green)

Synthetic Stone

  • Cherry red opal
  • Black Molten opal
  • Ruby Red opal
  • Emerald Green opal
  • Dark Green opal
  • Royal Blue opal
  • Silver Glass Glitter
  • Copper Powder

Metals

  • Copper
  • Stirling Silver
  • Brass
  • 18ct Gold (yellow, white, rose)
  • Silver Frit

Dried Flowers (specific flowers by request)

Sand (Bournemouth Beach, Sandbanks, Lulworth Stone, D-Day Beach Sand from Omaha, Sword, Gold and Utah)